No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous. — George Allen Copy Share Image
One might have thought that the Cold War's conclusion would have convinced the Left that appeasement of dictators is not profitable. — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way. — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
There's going to be no more compromise on issues where there should not be compromise. Enough with appeasement or apology and mollifying,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“What decent philosopher was ever an appeaser? The former is a rare catch among the multitudes of modern opinionists. His role is… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The Iranians have shot down drones. They tried to destroy the Saudi oil fields. They tried to storm our embassy. So, when… — John Kennedy Copy Share Image
There is an increasing demand that the president and Secretary Hull get rid of the unteachable group in the State Department of… — Elmer Davis Copy Share Image
Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaida leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the… — William Safire Copy Share Image
The European arguments against the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act demonstrate that "some Europeans have never lost faith in appeasement as a way of… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness… — John Stott Copy Share Image
If anything good is going to emerge out of this, it's going to be the result of an acceptable modus vivendi between… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
Now, the United States' response, the western response to this is a continuation of the appeasement that was started back in the… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share Image
The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given us as much terror as we can take. We have paid a high enough price… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
(I)t is simply wrong to confuse cowardice with appeasement. Cowardice is a failing of character. Appeasement is a failure of policy. Stalin… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Many politicians in the West cling to the notion of a partnership with Russia. They want to include [Vladimir] Putin, make compromises… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
They will do more whether we do what we're doing or whether we don't do what we're doing. And the idea that… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
“[He] had seen firsthand the horrific results of appeasement. It was a path chosen by feebleminded people who were morally incapable of… — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and… — Helmut Schoeck Copy Share Image
“The Russian contribution to peace in Ukraine is not sufficient. [German Chancellor commenting on 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine and annexation… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
If appeasing our enemies is not the answer, neither is hating them… Somewhere between the extremes of appeasement and hate there is… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
Recall when the Congress-led government was in power; then-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had talked about who had rights to the country's resources.… — Yogi Adityanath Copy Share Image
Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“This was not what they wanted to hear because ever since Barack Obama had become president in 2009, the main policy of… — Bill Browder Copy Share Image
It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
The era of procrastination...is coming to a close...we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill (warning about the danger of… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
![“Many politicians in the West cling to the notion of a partnership with Russia. They want to include [Vladimir] Putin, make compromises and constantly negotiate new deals with him. But history has taught us that the longer we pursue appeasement and do nothing, the higher the price will be later on…” quote by Garry Kasparov](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7bc/garry-kasparov-910_appeasement_many-politicians-in-the-west-cling-to-th_3034013.png)
![“They will do more whether we do what we're doing or whether we don't do what we're doing. And the idea that you could appease them [terrorists] by stopping doing what we're doing or some implication that by doing what we're doing we're inciting them to attack us is just utter nonsense. It's just…” quote by Donald Rumsfeld](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/52e/donald-rumsfeld-1507_alligators_they-will-do-more-whether-we-do-what-we_3041179.jpg)
![“[He] had seen firsthand the horrific results of appeasement. It was a path chosen by feebleminded people who were morally incapable of confronting evil. He saw many parallels between the Nazis, the communists, and these jihadists. They were all sociopaths at heart--obsessed with their own tribal…” quote by Vince Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/bab/vince-flynn-12653_appeasement_he-had-seen-firsthand-the-horrific-resul_2230271.jpg)
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